hg mv old new equivalent to mv old new hg addremove

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Uwe,

On Sunday, 2020-07-26 19:14:53 +0200, you wrote:

> ...
> I presume hg mv is «safer» in that sense. But what information does it
> preserve? 

The information that one file  is just a rename of the other,  which is,
for instance, utilized by "hg log -f".   If you just move a file outside
of Mercurial,  the old file  will just  cease to exist  and the new file
will just spring into existence  without noting that the old file is the
predecessor of the new one.

Sincerely,
  Rainer